Gina A. Zurlo

Gina A. Zurlo is currently a Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She is also Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, where she edits the World Christian Database (Brill). Her research focuses on the demography of religion, World Christianity, sociology of religion, and women’s studies. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, where she edits the World Religion Database (Brill). Her most recent books include Global Christianity: A Guide to the World’s Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (Zondervan Academic, 2022), Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), and From Nairobi to the World: David B. Barrett and the Re-Imagining of World Christianity (Brill, 2023). She was named one of the BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 for her work in quantifying the religious future.

In the Media

www.ginazurlo.com

Seminar with the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide on Women in World Christianity

An article with The Conversation, “Why the future of the world’s largest religion is female – and African”